Past Header pics

The header image has a size requirement of 940×130 pixels. It’s quite hard to find or crop an image that is meaningful at those dimensions. It occurred to me that my wonderful Sony Nex-5 camera, could help with its ‘sweep panorama’ feature. This is an early experiment to get an interesting headersnap. It was taken at the British Museum, and was intended to be a sweep shot of a very long bench, on which were seated a variety of museum visitors. During the shot, someone walked past, and the strange dynamics of the sweep function intercut his hands with those of the seated visitors.

K2 from Concordia. This is a 180 pano of the Karakoram range (with K2 on the left), taken from the Baltoro glacier in Pakistan in 2007. Concordia is at a confluence of several glaciers, and is a sort of temporary town, occupied in the climbing months as a supply point for K2 and other 7000m plus peaks in the area. It was cold, misty and freezing when we arrived the previous night. The next morning it was cloud-free and I was able to take some reasonable shots of the incredible array of peaks from our camp.

New navigation links

Keep up to date

Latest news 0818

Hmm, I see that the last ‘latest news’ was published in December 2015. I actually stopped updating the site in September 2016, so either way it’s been a while. I am gradually returning the site to normal operation – starting with Virage Corner, a section that is simultaneously the most obscure and the most used of the entire site. But I have doubled the number of repair and maintenance tips there, and should you happen to have one of the 363 Virage coupes ever manufactured, you will find a wealth of new discoveries.

In the last ‘news’ I mentioned that I would be moving to FaceBoook for most posts. That wasn’t such a good idea. For reasons I have described in my first ‘return to normal’ post, I am very much out of Facebook. To the extent I ever publish opinion pieces again, I’ll put them here, along with photos and other interesting stuff.

If you are returning here, thank you for your patience. If you are new, welcome…….